A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Since they got back from the hospital, Mark took off the handcuffs from Tina. However, if Tina refused treatment, Mark wouldn't hesitate to lock her up again, even if it would make Tina hate him more.

Tina did not utter a word, but the resentment was clear as crystal in her eyes.

Tina hated feeling like a prisoner! She never imagined her life would come to this!

Before long, Mark brought another bowl of ointment and applied it on Tina's wounds gently.

"When do you intend on setting me free?" Tina asked, coldly.

"Doesn't it feel good to be home? No one can hurt you here and you won't have to see the faces that you don't like either," Mark answered, with tongue-in-cheek.

In the past few days, Mark's parents made several attempts to visit Tina, but every time Mark would send them back with some kind of excuse. Mark's parents felt guilty assuming that Tina did not want to see them because they wanted to welcome Emily back into the Tao family. Therefore, they decided to give Tina some time on her own, instead of constantly pestering her.

Besides, they trusted their son to take good care of Tina, so they did not have to worry about anything at all.

Frustrated and annoyed, Tina screamed at Mark, "You've kept me locked up here, against my will, Mark!"

"No, I'm protecting you," he said.

"Hypocrite," she replied.

"I don't care what you think of me," he retorted.

Mark didn't hold any grudges against Tina. He just smiled and said, "But my love for you is unconditional."

Tina warned, with contempt, "You cannot keep me locked up in here forever."

Mark did not take Tina's threat seriously until night time, when he really understood what she had meant by that.

When Mark left her alone for a little while, Tina used a piece of broken glass to cut open her wrist. The blood gushed out from the wound and dripped all over the ground.

panic contorted his face, as he panicked and rushed to cover

you can take it out on

Tina stared at the blood blankly, as if she could not feel the pain. "Because it works, doesn't it?" she answered

for her own safety

little angry, as his eyes failed

up in here as long as you want, and I will keep on doing this to keep myself entertained," she said.

the doctor came

the future," the doctor urged. The doctor frowned when she saw the wound on Tina's wrist, as she hurried to dress it up quickly. "Be sure to

motionless. He didn't utter a word,

against each other, as if the one to speak

the battle of love, the one to take things seriously would tend to lose, while the one

to say, Mark

living in here. I don't mind if you want to go out, but you don't need to hurt yourself just to get to me. Do you understand?" he said. Mark signed and gently continued, "Tina, why on earth do you

don't want to understand," she answered. Tina's eyes did not

lost everything, her high status; her right to be arrogant; her beauty and her

out there, Emily was living the perfect life. Emily had everything Tina had lost. How could Tina

thing that kept Tina going was her hatred and

Emily down to hell with her, if that

darkened. "You can go, but I will accompany you everywhere at all times. Do not try to be devious. I promise I will exact revenge upon your enemies

powerless, no one could protect Emily anymore. Then he

to taste what it felt to be desperate and powerless.

imagined all the various and elaborate methods he

over to Tina, for her to torture them as long

of his mouth, as she

gentle as before. "Our parents haven't seen

that if Mark continued to keep Tina locked up in his home for an indefinite amount time,

ridiculed him. "They are your parents, not